Awatchfire

Fresno County, California

Frank Fire

Burning 2.3 miles south-east of Minkler and 4.4 miles east of Centerville, since Thursday 3 September.

Map of California. The Frank Fire burns 170 miles from Sacramento, and 170 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 170 miles from Sacramento.

13

acres burned so far

41

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Frank Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 13 acres in Fresno County, California. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

41 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 3 September at 6:19pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.715, -119.421lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 12.0 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 25% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Elwood Rd Yokuts_Valley Fire started on Friday 9 October, 10.7 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Orange 2 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 10.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Madsen Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 11.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Sandy Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 11.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Sand Fire started 1432 minutes before this one, 12.1 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Mistle Fire started on Friday 28 August, 12.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.

How the record has moved

Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.

  1. Thursday 3 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 3 September

    5 acres on record

    5 ac
  3. Thursday 3 September

    Grew to 17 acres

    17 ac
  4. Thursday 3 September

    Revised to 13 acres

    13 ac